Benefit Finding at War: A Matter of Time

Journal of Traumatic Stress

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 307-314

  Wood, Michael D ^a   Britt, Thomas W ^a,b   Wright, Kathleen M ^a   Thomas, Jeffrey L ^b   Bliese, Paul D ^b  

^a U S ARMY   (United States)

^b WALTER REED ARMY INSTITUTE OF RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MALE; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOLDIER; UNITED STATES; WAR;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; COMBAT DISORDERS; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; IRAQ WAR, 2003 -; MALE; MILITARY PERSONNEL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; UNITED STATES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84862746986     PISSN: 08949867     EISSN: 15736598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jts.21701     Document Type: Article

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